Free Course
Introduction to Machine Learning Course
Pattern Recognition for Fun and Profit
About this Course
Machine Learning is a first-class ticket to the most exciting careers in data analysis today. As data sources proliferate along with the computing power to process them, going straight to the data is one of the most straightforward ways to quickly gain insights and make predictions.
Machine learning brings together computer science and statistics to harness that predictive power. It’s a must-have skill for all aspiring data analysts and data scientists, or anyone else who wants to wrestle all that raw data into refined trends and predictions.
This is a class that will teach you the end-to-end process of investigating data through a machine learning lens. It will teach you how to extract and identify useful features that best represent your data, a few of the most important machine learning algorithms, and how to evaluate the performance of your machine learning algorithms.
This course is also a part of our Data Analyst Nanodegree.
Course Cost
Free
Timeline
Approx. 10 weeks
Skill Level
intermediate
Included in Product
Rich Learning Content
Interactive Quizzes
Taught by Industry Pros
Self-Paced Learning
Course Leads
Katie Malone
Instructor
Sebastian Thrun
Instructor
What You Will Learn
Prerequisites and Requirements
One thing that we don’t require is previous exposure to machine learning. If you’re a machine learning beginner, you’re in the right place.
See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.
Why Take This Course
In this course, you’ll learn by doing! We’ll bring machine learning to life by showing you fascinating use cases and tackling interesting real-world problems like self-driving cars. For your final project you’ll mine the email inboxes and financial data of Enron to identify persons of interest in one of the greatest corporate fraud cases in American history.
When you finish this introductory course, you’ll be able to analyze data using machine learning techniques, and you’ll also be prepared to take our Data Analyst Nanodegree. We’ll get you started on your machine learning journey by teaching you how to use helpful tools, such as pre-written algorithms and libraries, to answer interesting questions.
What do I get?
- Instructor videos
- Learn by doing exercises
- Taught by industry professionals